A FEW YEARS ago Russell Maret, a New York artist, found himself puzzling over a question. In the 1920s and 1930s some preindustrial fonts were revived by Stanley Morison, a great British typographer.

Traditional letterpress printing is a beautiful, time-honored tradition that has survived over 500 years. But within the past few decades, modern computers have led these classic machines to their ...

Starting with inventor Johannes Gutenberg in the 1450s, letterpress printing using movable types revolutionised the world, making mass printing effortless and ushering in an era of easily accessible ...

The hum of the letterpress presses provides a blanket of white noise as the printers and designers at Hatch Show Print, the 138-year-old print shop in downtown Nashville, bustle atop the hardwood ...

The Web site of Trip Print Press declares them to be "Practioners of the black art, letterpress." Some use the letterpress process purely for the nostalgia factor, but TPP works with it because of its ...

Nothing speaks of “old world comforts’ more than a glass of finely aged liquor and the traditional letterpress printing process. The combination of the two evokes days of yore, when artisanal printing ...

Everyone says it: Print is dead. Newspapers across the country have been going through a process of intense change, as their primary method of distribution moves from print to digital. But my position ...